12 parties in HoR: Who got how many seats?

KATHMANDU: The House of Representatives (HoR) will have 12 parties. According to the results of the vote-counting on Tuesday, the seven parties that received at least one seat and three percent of the votes became national parties. Nepali Congress (NC) is the largest party in the HoR with 89 seats, 57 directly and 32 proportionally.

UML dropped to second place with 44 direct seats and 34 proportional seats, totaling 78 seats. In the proportional vote, UML secured the most votes 2,845,641 out of 1 crore 5 lakh 60 thousand 67. The NC secured 2,715,225 votes. The Maoists gained 14 seats through proportional representation after winning 18 seats directly. Maoist secured 1,175,684 votes in total.

For the first time, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won 7 seats directly by participating in the elections. By securing 1,130,344 votes in proportional, adding 13 seats, he has increased the total number of seats to 20.

RPP has won 14 seats, including 7 directly and 7 proportionally, to become the fifth largest party. RPP, which won only one direct seat in the election five years ago, fared much better in this year’s election. He received 588,849 votes in proportion.

The Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) will have 12 MPs in the HoR. It has been decided that seven of them will be elected directly, while the remaining five will be elected proportionally.

The Janamat Party, which won one seat directly, added five seats by receiving 394,655 votes in proportion. For the first time, the Janamat Party, led by CK Raut, ran in the HoR election.

The CPN (Unified Socialists Party), which won 10 seats directly, was denied proportional representation because it did not meet the three percent threshold. Even if it is unable to become a national party due to its ten seats, the Unified Socialists will be able to have a chief whip.

Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP) 4, Nagarik Unmukti Party 3, Nepal Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (NWPP) and Janamorcha directly won 1 and 1 seat respectively, but they did not become a national party as they could not cut the threshold proportionally. Even if the national party is not recognized, the parliament secretariat should provide offices to the smaller parties.

No single party has achieved a single majority in the House of Representatives, and the five-party ruling coalition has also lost two seats for the majority. In the 138 seats needed for majority, the alliance has only got 136 seats.